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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Incarceration in a prison necessarily, fatally, destroys the energy of a man, and still more kills his will.”

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Incarceration in a prison necessarily, fatally, destroys the energy of a man, and still more kills his will.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin asserts that imprisonment fundamentally undermines a person's energy and willpower.

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